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Splash Lab reveals s...
Professor Tadd Truscott and graduate student Jesse Daily were featured on Inside Science TV demonstrating the science behind the bottle-exploding trick. Jesse’s thesis elucidates the phenomenon in more detail with a publication to...
Sloshing Dynamics
Professor Tadd Truscott along with Masters Student Robert Klaus and undergraduate Taylor W. Killian investigate the impact dynamics of hollow elastic spheres partially filled with fluid in a research paper and podcast featured on Physics of Fluids. Unlike an empty sphere, the internal fluid mitigates some of the...
Splash Lab Featured ...
Happy Easter everyone!
We made another video in conjunction with BYU news to highlight some of our research with an Easter theme. KSL also wanted to come, and they created another segment about us. We were very excited to see both the video on the BYU webpage and the segment on KSL. So excited, in fact, that we...
First Utah Seaperch ...
Last week the SplashLab organized the first-ever Seaperch competition in the state of Utah. Although, it was the first competition of its kind in the state, over 200 middle and elementary school-age students participated. Throughout the year dozens of volunteers traveled to these various schools to teach the students...
SAPIV Article Publis...
Last week an article from our lab featuring a detailed overview of Synthetic Aperture Particle Image Velocimetry was published in the Journal of Visual Experiments. You can watch the video and read the article on the JOVE website HERE.
If you would like to know more about Synthetic Aperture PIV, visit our SAPIV...
1st Annual Utah SeaP...
Over Students 200 from 9 middle schools in Utah and Davis county will be coming to the Lehi Legacy Center on March 14th to compete in the first Utah SeaPerch Challenge. Students will be bringing underwater vehicles they have designed and built themselves to participate in a timed competition performing underwater...
MIT Technology Revie...
Last Fall The Physics arXiv Blog highlighted us in the MIT Technology Review. Thanks guys we appreciate all of the good press. A link to their article can be found...
Research Update: New...
We just added a new sloshing dynamics video on YouTube. We’ve added it to our Research section, but if you don’t want to make three more clicks, you can make only one click and watch it...
New Video: How to Ti...
Dr. Truscott is well known for his tasteful collection of non-pretentious bowties. In this video he shares his secret, so that you too can rock the bowtie....
New Video: Guns Bein...
Hey look at this! We made Jesse and Jon made a video of guns being shot at high speed. They used a Schlieren process to visualize pressure gradients in the...
SplashLab Christmas
SplashLab was featured on the BYU homepage, KSL, Deseret News, fmzik.com, grooveyglue and many more. As you can see from the video, that we made good use of the color high speed video camera (Thanks to Itronx and Photron) and had a lot of fun. From all of us here at SplashLab we wish everyone a happy and safe...
2012 APS Poster Winn...
One of our posters won the poster competition at the 2012 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Conference this past week. You can check it out...
AIP Gallery of Fluid...
Last year our video “Holy Ball! Balls that Walk on Water” won the Milton VanDyke Award at the 2011 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Conference. You can see the video as well as all of the other award winner here at the American Institute of Physics’ website.
Here’s...
Dry Ice in Slow Moti...
We had some left-over dry ice from our Halloween celebrations, so we decided to take some photos of dry ice sublimating underwater. Check out these photos, and these YouTube...
Quiescent Cavitation
A popular party trick is to fill a glass bottle with water and hit the top of the bottle with an open hand, causing the bottom of the bottle to break open. We investigate the source of the catastrophic cracking through the use of high-speed video and an accelerometer attached to the bottom of a glass bottle.
Upon...
Featured in the Dail...
On Sept. 21, our lab got a spot in the Daily Universe’s website. This article pretty much sums up what we do here at SplashLab. To read it click on the...
APS 2012 Video Submi...
We’ve submitted two videos to APS this year, but since most of you won’t be going to APS, we’ve decided to share them on our website as a sneak peak. Enjoy these little morsels of fluid...
Balls that walk on w...
We are happy to announce that we were published today in Physics of Fluids highlighting our video entitled “Holy balls! Balls that walk on water.” We won last years Milton Van Dyke award at the annual American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion and were invited to publish...
3D bubble field meas...
Today we were published in Experiments in Fluids. Our article entitled “Three Dimensional Bubble Field Resolution Using Synthetic Aperture Imaging: Application to a Plunging Jet” outlines a method for measuring bubble fields in three dimensions. We are grateful to the reviewers for a positive review...
Flapping Flight
As a moth flaps its wings, a vortex is generated on the leading edge of the wing. The flapping motion allows the vortex to remain attached and provide a lifting force. It is thought that the lifting force from the vortex is what allows moths and other animals with flapping wings to fly and hover. By studying the...